Education
His proposed policy as regards registration of botanical names proved unpopular and in 1999 he stepped back, not being elected anew: he merely completed his term as chair to be succeeded at Vienna in 2005.
Botanist curator university professor
His proposed policy as regards registration of botanical names proved unpopular and in 1999 he stepped back, not being elected anew: he merely completed his term as chair to be succeeded at Vienna in 2005.
He is well known as the chair of the Editorial Committee for the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) - both the previous Street Louis Code (2000), and Tokyo Code (1994), but not the current Vienna Code (2006). Professor Greuter went to schools in Bellinzona and Winterthur, and received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Zürich in 1972. He was appointed on April 1, 1978 to his current position: Professor of biology in the Institute of Biology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and First Director of the University"s Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) in Berlin.
He has remained a member of the editorial committee, contributing to the 2011 renamed International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, the "Melbourne Code" (2012).